Prosperity

Question: Is lack of abundance sometimes necessary as a life's
purpose? I seem to go around in circles, and never get ahead. I am generous and caring as a person, but
getting by is a struggle, no matter how I direct my thoughts, to pay the bills and just live. I desperately
have been seeking my own answers spiritually, but without insight. I am having a hard time staying positive.
Can you give me some prosperity advice for becoming more prosperous and so I can get out of this unproductive
debt cycle?

Answer: Hello, dear one! Thank you for your question. Alana would not necessarily say
that a life purpose is about not having abundance, but Alana can say that sometimes individuals learn through
contrast. Contrast can be a great teacher. In this case, dear one, I feel that the lack of abundance in
your life has come from many different things. I will try to touch on the essentials.

First of all, Alana feels that you are a very generous person and that you give much of yourself. Plus,
you have a family that has many, many needs. Therefore, you are in a collective environment sharing with
others and you are a very nurturing individual.

You may have a feeling, or let's call it a belief, that is very subtle, that says, "I must always
give of myself. Therefore, I do not have enough." Would you like to go within and find some of your
core beliefs? Alana feels that there could be a belief that there is not enough love. Alana also feels
that there could be a core belief that the world is not a fully abundant place. You can play with these
ideas a little bit.

When we have lack in our environment, it can be a great teacher. We begin to learn how to love ourselves
more and find ways how to hold others as able. Perhaps you could delegate some of the responsibilities
that you take on to others and hold them response-able (responsible with no blame). This will lighten your
load. As you start to feel that you have a little more freedom, Alana thinks that this freedom will begin
to manifest into forms of abundance in subtle ways.

I think the lack you are experiencing also has something to do with freedom. When you feel you have a
little more freedom, I think you are going to find that you also can get other needs met that will represent
new forms of abundance. As abundance comes in these other forms, and as you begin to feel them, meditate
on them and notice them more. Your thoughts will begin to focus on what you do have. As your thoughts focus
on what you do have and you begin to receive more, your thoughts of abundance will expand. Then money will
also come.

I also want you to look at the amount of creativity that you allow to flow through you. In other words,
how often do you do things for yourself just because you want to? The more that you allow forms of creativity
to move through you, the more abundance you can attract. Often when we lack abundance, it is because we
have resistance within us--resistance to allow ourselves to do something that we want to do.

Hopefully these thoughts will provide you some prosperity tips to ponder. Alana appreciates your
question, and perhaps we will do a grand topic, or series, on this very question.